CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Quatro Barras it runs 344 km to Quatro Barras; allow about 6 h 37 of riding. The stops in between: Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, Guaraguacu Ecological Station, Ilha do Mel Ecological Station and back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 29 km this is Estrada da Graciosa, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
South of Curitiba the Serra do Mar stops being a distant wall and becomes a country of its own, folded into sharp green peaks that rise from the coastal plain of Paraná to well over a thousand metres. The Serras do Cordeiro belong to that mountain tangle, in the zone of protected land and state parks around Pau Oco, near the town of Quatro Barras. Pico Paraná, the highest summit in southern Brazil, and the pyramid of Marumbi are the big names nearby, and the whole range is blanketed by Atlantic forest, a wet, mossy, orchid-hung woodland that catches the clouds coming off the ocean and drips for most of the year.
Read the complete Serras do Cordeiro write-up.
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Serras do Cordeiro is where the day begins. Next is Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
In 1873, the province of Paraná in southern Brazil opened a road down the Serra do Mar from Curitiba to the coast, and it is still there, paved with stone setts, winding through the Atlantic forest in more than a dozen kilometres of bends. The Serra do Mar here is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999, one of the largest remaining stretches of a forest that once covered much of the Brazilian coast.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
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Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese comes up 36 km in. Next is Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
On the coast of Paraná, between the port city of Paranaguá and the beaches of Pontal do Paraná, the Guaraguaçu Ecological Station protects a stretch of lowland forest, mangrove and sandy restinga along the Guaraguaçu river. It belongs to the network of Atlantic Forest reserves that UNESCO lists for the south and southeast of Brazil, here around the Paranaguá bay, one of the best preserved estuaries on the Brazilian coast. Access to the station itself is restricted, as ecological stations are mainly for research, but the surrounding landscape gives a strong sense of what it protects.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
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72 km in you reach Guaraguacu Ecological Station. Next is Ilha do Mel Ecological Station.
No cars are allowed on Ilha do Mel, the honey island, at the mouth of the bay of Paranaguá in southern Brazil, and that is a large part of its charm. The island is a mix of sandy beaches, rocky headlands, mangroves and Atlantic forest, and most of it is protected as an ecological station and a state park. Its forests, beaches and mangroves are part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves listed by UNESCO, a string of protected areas along the coast of Paraná and São Paulo that preserve some of the best remaining stretches of the Mata Atlântica. The number of visitors is limited, which keeps the island quiet even in summer.
Read the complete Ilha do Mel Ecological Station write-up.
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Ilha do Mel Ecological Station, about halfway. Next is back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese comes up 180 km in. Next is Serras do Cordeiro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serras do Cordeiro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Serras do Cordeiro closes the day.
Serras do Cordeiro → Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station → Ilha do Mel Ecological Station is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ilha do Mel Ecological Station → back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station → back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Serras do Cordeiro is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.